NOTE: THIS PATCHED USB DRIVER IS NO LONGER NECESSARY FOR PUPPY LINUX 4.3 AND LATER, SINCE LINUX KERNEL 2.6.30.1 AND LATER CONTAIN A MODULE UPDATE THAT WORKS WITH THE USB CONNECTION MULTITECH MULTIMODEM.

I am pleased to announce the first release of a patched driver for the USB-connected Multitech Multimodem GPRS/EDGE/CDMA modems. Multitech makes what are probably the best GPRS modems in the world. (GPRS is a wireless Internet technology, running on top of a GSM cellular phone connection. It provides very cheap Internet access throughout Costa Rica, and is popular in several European countries.)

To my knowledge this is the only working driver package available for a modern Linux distro (aside from my Debian Etch solution at http://linuxbackups.org/multimodem-on-linux, which is not nearly as nice as this). In other words, no other current Linux distro (kernel version 2.6x) has a driver package that works with these modems. It is tested only for GPRS. This pet is ONLY for kernel 2.7.21.7.

Included are:
1. Patched version of the ti_usb_3410_5052 driver, for which the Puppy 4.00 kernel has compiled-in support. This driver *replaces* the driver included with Puppy.

2. firmware for the GPRS, EDGE, and CDMA modems.

3. ppp connection and configuration scripts

4. GUI setup program with Puppy menu entry

5. Connection script with Puppy menu entry

The included GUI modem setup utility makes setup of this modem under Puppy faster and easier by far than Windows. The setup utility should also work with all serial connection Multitech modems, as well as other brands of GPRS modems. In that case, the USB serial driver is not needed and can be uninstalled (instructions included).

The whole idea of this package is to provide all you need to use Multitech USB connection modems without patching the kernel, etc. I'm sorry that was not clear.

You can use MT-GPRS with USB GPRS/EDGE/CDMA Multitech Multimodem with Puppy 4.0. If you use 4.1, you will need to choose the 2.6.21.7 kernel version (4.1retro). For 4.1 retro you will not even need MT-GPRS, I believe.

Hi,
The phone number is wrong for GPRS (and for CDMA/EDGE too, I think). Your number should look like this: *99***1# Try that one, and if it doesn't work, try a "2" or a "3" before the "#" character. If all else fails, contact your ISP to determine the correct number.

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